I open same community directly on Lemmy.world and via feddit.de. Number of subscribers are very different.

Why?

  • Spzi@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This also confuses me. I can sort of understand and make sense of it that feddit.de show a lower subscriber count. It means that’s the number of users from feddit.de who subscribed to fitness@lemmy.world. I don’t know why anyone would care for that specific information, but okay.

    The real confusion regards the hosting instance. Does the subscriber count on https://lemmy.world/c/fitness@lemmy.world show (1) only the subscribers from lemmy.world, or does it (2) include all the subscribers from other instances, too?

    If it’s #1, then how can we see the total subscriber count? Why would anyone care for any other figure?

    I’d prefer if it’s #2. My complaint in this case would be it is confusing to have different calculations for the same display.

    I wish the instance hosting a community would calculate the number of total subscribers, notify all subscribing instances of that number, and they all display the same.

    • gelberhut@feddit.deOP
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      1 year ago

      yes. I assume that this is technically driven feature - an instance has information about local users subscribed to federated community and shows it. However, for me as a user this, at best, an is additional information.

      Anyways, my “rant” is: the number is rather misleading and here we are guess what does it actually mean - we do not know. BTW, it could easily be that lemmy.world also shows local subscribers only.